Blacklight (2022)

 

Political activist Sofia Flores speaks at a rally in Washington, D.C. about women's equality and racial equality. That evening, she is killed in an apparent hit-and-run accident outside of her home.

Travis Block, a Vietnam War veteran, works off-the-books directly for FBI Director Gabriel Robinson as a fixer, extracting undercover agents who are in unstable or tricky situations and other complex jobs Robinson assigns him to do. He wants to retire and spend more time with his daughter and granddaughter, but Robinson is reluctant to let him go. Block's current assignment is to bring in undercover FBI Agent Dusty Crane.

However, Crane goes rogue and contacts a journalist, Mira Jones, claiming to have information about Flores' death. Block finds Crane and they engage in a chase outside of Jones' office. Crane escapes and arranges a new meeting with Jones at a museum. Block follows Jones to the meeting and attempts to apprehend Crane. Crane escapes his custody again, but is shot dead by two FBI Agents.

Block and Jones meet, and she tells him that Crane claimed to have information about a top secret FBI program ran by Robinson called Operation Unity, which kills innocent civilians, including Flores. Block confronts Robinson about Operation Unity, but the latter claims innocence. He warns Block not to get in his way.

Jones' editor, Drew, writes a story from her sources about Crane's mysterious death. That evening, he is followed home by a black SUV and is shot dead after a car accident by the same two FBI Agents that killed Crane. Meanwhile, Block's family also "goes missing". He is unable to contact them or find their whereabouts.

Jones convinces a distressed Block to help her uncover the mystery of Operation Unity and the deaths of Crane and Drew. He tells her that Robinson has a safe with government secrets in his house. He confronts Robinson at his house and forces him to open the safe, which contains a hard drive with information about Operation Unity on it. Robinson escapes, with the help of several FBI Agents, who engage in a gunfight with Block. After defeating the agents, Block retrieves the hard drive.

Block and Jones review the data on the hard drive and discover that Crane was in love with his assignment, Flores. Robinson had her killed after Crane got too attached to her. Block confronts Robinson with the truth about Operation Unity and forces him to turn himself in to the authorities. Robinson is arrested for his crimes, Jones completes her story about the government coverup and Block retires from his job as a off-the-books fixer and reunites with his family who had been placed in Witness Protection, but are now brought back home.